Ken Whisson b. 1927

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Ken Whisson combined a strong social conscience with an ascetic life style. His paintings and drawings were intuitive approaches to things seen and felt. He was given a major travelling retrospective ("As If") in 2012.
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exhibited at
Ken Whisson: a survey
Date
1990
Place
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC
Description

Whisson’s pictures are polarising, what at first seems clumsy takes on a feeling of instinctive correctness, what seems ugly becomes unexpectedly compelling.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Warnambool Art Gallery exhibition archive; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Whisson, Ken, Ken Whisson: A survey. Shepparton, Vic: Shepparton Art Gallery, 1990
ISBN 064600221X

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting
exhibited at
Ken Whisson survey
Date
1990
Place
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC
Description

Initiated by 312 Lennox Street Gallery. Ken whisson was artist in residence at Ballarat in 1976/7.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
BFAG annual report; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Whisson, Ken, Ken Whisson: A survey. Shepparton, Vic: Shepparton Art Gallery, 1990
ISBN 064600221X

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting
exhibited at
Joseph Brown Collection
Date
1989
Place
Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Prints and Australia: Pre Settlement to Present
Date
1989
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
solo exhibition
Date
1989
Place
Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Drawings in Australia: Drawings, Watercolours and Pastels from the 1770s to the 1980s
Date
1988
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Great Australian Art Exhibition 1788 – 1988
Date
1988
Place
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Description

toured nationally

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Seventeen Australian Artists
Date
1988
Place
Gallery 5, Vidal, Venice, Italy
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Creating Australia: 200 Years of Australian Art 1788-1988
Date
1988
Place
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Toured to all State galleries

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Contemporary Art in Australia - a review
Date
1987
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, QLD
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Painters & Sculptors: Diversity in Contemporary Art
Date
1987
Place
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Ken Whisson paintings 1957-1985
Date
1987
Place
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Organised by the Broken Hill Art Gallery; Toured to Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne and other Australia States. Funded by Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council. Three decades of Ken Whisson’s career were presented in this major exhibition of 36 paintings, dating from the year Whisson returned from his first visit to Europe in 1954-6.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGSA annual report; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Ken Whisson : paintings, 1957-1985. [Broken Hill, N.S.W.] : Broken Hill City Art Gallery, [1986]
ISBN 0959088539

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting
exhibited at
Ken Whisson: paintings 1957-1985
Date
1987
Place
Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Description

Organised by the Broken Hill Art Gallery; Toured to Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne. Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council. Three decades of Ken Whisson’s career were presented in this major exhibition of 36 paintings, dating from the year Whisson returned from his first visit to Europe in 1954-6.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Wollongong City Gallery annual report 1987

Exhibition Catalogue:
Ken Whisson : paintings, 1957-1985. [Broken Hill, N.S.W.] : Broken Hill City Art Gallery, [1986].
ISBN 0959088539

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Retrospective, Painting
exhibited at
The Australians
Date
1984
Place
CDS Gallery, New York, USA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Ken Whisson
Date
1984
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Festival exhibition

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
CACSA 'Recollections’ 1942-86

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Adelaide Biennial, Painting
exhibited at
Recent Australian Painting: A Survey 1970 - 1983
Date
1983
Place
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Some Recent Australian Works on Paper
Date
1983
Place
Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Seventies: Australian Paintings & Tapestries
Date
1982
Place
National Gallery of Victora, Melbourne, VIC
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Painting and Sculpture 1956 - 1981
Date
1982
Place
Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Some Australian Drawings 1880-1980
Date
1 January 1981
Place
Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Perspecta
Date
1981
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Ken Whisson: Selected Paintings
Date
1980
Place
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Pemandangan alam dan Khayal/Landscape and Image: A Selection of Australian Art of the 1970s
Date
1978
Place
Indonesia
Description

toured

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
solo exhibition
Date
1977
Place
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Ken Whisson
Date
1977
Place
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC
Description

Recent work by the Gallery’s artist in residence.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
BFAG annual report; UTAS catalogue

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting
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